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by claytoncmk

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is there a way to increase virtual ram so as to allow my applications to run more smoothly?

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by heludaye

if your using windows run msconfig and disable some running start-up programs

by Former member

There is another way, but since you do not know how to do increase the virtual ram, i will not post it here.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

by oh smeg

All I can say is to Increase what is called under Windows the [b]Swap File[/b] or [b]Page File[/b] Minimum Size.

That will increase your Virtual RAM but depending on how much you have loaded it may have no effect on the way that the applications run.

As a Starting point the Page File should be at least 1.5 times the Actual Ram to 2 Times the Actual RAM but if you have a small amount of RAM installed you can make the Minimum Size 300% the Amount of Installed RAM for the Lower End and 500% of installed RAM at the higher end.

So if you have 1 GIG of RAM installed in the computer you can make the Minimum Size 3 GIG and the Upper Size 5 GIG. If you have 256 MEG of RAM installed you could start off with a Minimum Size of 1 GIG and a Upper Size of 2 GIG and depending on how fast your HDD can transfer Data it may help to improve things.

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